The bank today announced a fully underwritten SKr15bn ($2bn) rights issue to shore up their balance sheet hit hard by economic turmoil in eastern Europe.
The Federal Reserve plans to slow the pace of its purchases of U.S. Treasuries as the recession eases, and signaled that the $300bn program will end in October.
The Bank of Englandâ??s monetary policy committee voted to extend its so-called quantitative easing programme of buying government and corporate bonds from £125bn to an unexpectedly large £175bn, while holding interest rates at 0.5 per cent.
The prices of the most traded risky European and US loans have reached their highest levels for more than a year, in a further sign of improving conditions in credit markets.